BagOfHeavyStones
@BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social
An Australian fella.
- Comment on LibreOffice calls out Microsoft for using "complex" file formats to lock in Office users 2 weeks ago:
Not entirely sure. Was probably a brain fart.
I guess quantum computers? A million monkeys and a million terminals can create a docx.
- Comment on LibreOffice calls out Microsoft for using "complex" file formats to lock in Office users 3 weeks ago:
I'm thinking more of pattern matching and rapid testing of variants etc, not the LLM stuff.
- Comment on LibreOffice calls out Microsoft for using "complex" file formats to lock in Office users 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if this is something AI could figure out. Some sort of file converter that can load the doc in office 365 and 'figure out' how what tomfoolery was used this time.
- Comment on WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family 1 month ago:
I thought it was a weird version of Elton John's Too Low For Zero.
- Comment on KDE targets Windows 10 'exiles' claiming 'your computer is toast' 2 months ago:
I remember years ago there was a copy of Linux that you could install on a Windows drive and it'd run even though it was on the NTFS drive.
One of the big challenges for migration is presumably having to take all your data off your C drive blow it away, install Linux then put all your files back. A version that would happily reside on NTFS and just give Windows the heave-ho might be an easier option for n00bs.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 2 months ago:
Funny that Debian and Fedora were the only two distros that worked on my laptop. (dual GPU, others booted to black screen after install.) Debian hasn't grenaded itself yet :)